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Cards In This Set
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Symbolic Interactionism
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Mead
People create symbolic worlds through language and their interactions with other individuals, which shapes their behavior |
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Coordinated Management and Meaning
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Pearce and Cronen
People in conversations co-construct their own social realities and are simultaneously shaped by the worlds they create based on interpretations that are based on rules |
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Dialogic Communication
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Buber
People should speak in a manner that makes others want to listen and listen in a way that makes others want to speak |
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Expectancy Violations Theory
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Burgoon
When expectations are violated in interpersonal relationships, the person who is violated becomes extremely aware of the violation and the violator and decides if they like or dislike the violation (and consequently the violator) |
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Proxemics
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Hall
People have different distances that they expect others will adhere to based on the intimacy of the relationship |
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Interaction Adaptation Theory
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Burgoon
People adjust their behavior when someone else’s behavior violates their expectations |
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Constructivism
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Delia
People with high cognitive complexity are better able to create person-centered messages and accomplish their goals in communication |
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Social Penetration Theory
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Altman and Taylor
We become more intimate with others when we become vulnerable and self-disclose |
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Social Exchange Theory
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Thibaut and Kelley
People decide if they want to pursue/continue/end relationships based on the relationship’s perceived rewards and costs |
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Social Information Processing Theory
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Walther
People who communicate via the computer can develop extremely intimate relationships, which can even be closer than those created face-to-face |
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Relational Dialectics
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Baxter and Montgomery
Relationships are extremely complicated and full of contradictions, which create tensions within the relationships |
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Symbolic Convergence Theory
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Bormann
Groups unite (or converge) around stories and group fantasies that are co-created and shared |
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Cultural Approach to Organizations
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Geertz and Pacanowsky
An organization does not have culture, an organization is culture |
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Information Systems Approach to Organizations
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Weick
Members in an organization go through the action of organizing, in which they interpret information and realize how to reach organizational goals through the process of retrospective sensemaking |
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Objective Characteristics
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One truth
Separation
between knower and known
Predict
and control
Large
population
Want
to generalize to larger populations
Scope
Parsimony
Testability
and Falsifiability (Popper)
Methods:
Experiments, Surveys
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